A Revista Brasileira de Educação Física e Desportos (1968-1984): um estudo sobre a educação física escolar durante a Ditadura Militar

Abstract

This thesis aims to analyze how the Physical Education was represented by editors and authors of articles of the Revista Brasileira de Educação Física e Desportos (RBEFD) during the years 1968 to 1984. The period between 1968-1984 refers to the beginning and ending of the publication and circulation of RBEFD. The use of educational forms, such is the case of the RBEFD, with a pedagogical steering, has heightened interest of researchers, therefore, exposes, for example, various features of how occurred the educational processes and the dissemination of ideologies, which end up having a significant value for the History of Education, allowing the historian the analysis of the discourse that circulated to the teachers of Physical Education in respect to the teaching of this discipline. The research has as reference the thought of Chartier (2002), above all, based on his concept of representations. The analysis relies also in the field of the history of the curriculum and the history of school subjects, having as references Goodson (1995; 1997; 2007) and Chervel (1990). The research is of documentary character, because it has as source of study the 53 editions of RBEFD that circulated in the mentioned period, which allows understanding the course that Physical Education had in Brazil to legitimize itself as school discipline. By falling back upon the analysis of RBEFD, it's possible to identify in the editorials and articles, contents that have been used as a device to spread political ideas of the period, allowing, also, to find out that this discourse privileged sports practices into detriment of other educational and social factors that can be favored by Physical Education. Thus, it is evident that the discourses related to Scholar Physical Education that circulated in RBEFD contributed to broaden the understanding of the school life and of the pedagogical practices during the Military Dictatorship in Brazil.